With waters in tons of turquoise, green and blue, it is no surprise Lake Salda Be often promoted as “Maldives of Türkiye”.
Extraordinary to see, quiet and surrounded by an abundant wildlife, it is no different that it delivers why it has become a significant attraction, though less known, located in the southwest of the country.
But lake Salda and its white sand beaches derive much more than just a dazzling landscape to attract tourists. According to scientists, He is the only place in the land that meets the crater JezeroLike this, In Mars.
This fact has despaired of great interests among space scientists, especially at a time when a human -way turning his attention to the red planet as a possible destination for a manned mission.
In addition, this resemblance has helped to raise awareness about a need for protection, fragile treasure, which enhances existential threat of pollution and a decrease in saga level.
Briony HorganProfessor without Department of Sciences of the Earth, Atmospheras and Planeturias at the University of Purdue, traveled to Turkey in 2019, with a perseverance of Rover team from NAASA to study the mysterious lake and stayed with its similar Commantina
“Énicho of really, a unique incivele place,” she told the CNN TRAVEL. “And in many ways, it was like being on the banks make old Jezero Lake on Mars.”
In spatial exploration, a planetary analog is a place on Earth considered similar or comparable to the conditions found on another planet, or moon. Horgan explained that finding an analog of Mars on Earth is a particular challenger due to the high levels of iron and magnesium that make up the soil on the red planet, and that they are “many primitives.”
Without, however, Horgan points out that the Salda Lake Basin has a Unique geological composition.
This process, according to Horgan, is responsible for the resemblance of Lake Salda with the Martian environment.
Nurgül BalciProfessor at the Department of Geological Engineering at the Technical University of Istanbul, also participated in NASA studies in Lake Salda. In addition to helping scientists to better cling to Mars’s geologogy, she explains that the lake also offers a valuable view of the history of our own planet.
For example, the microorganisms found in water formed microbial structures that are at least 2 million years old, some of which were exposed due to the reduction in the level of saga in the Rago. These carbonic forms, which are borne in flor, crucial clues about the origin of life.
“Lake Salda contains many informs that they can help us entertain the life that has emerged and has evolved 3.5 billion years ago,” said Balci.
Without last year, an International Geo-Patrimony Commission (IUGS) announced that Lake Salda was 100 main geological sites of the world.
Balci was one of the main responsible for Learnings, such as evidence that justifies the inclusion of the lake on this list.
“We made a dossier [mostrando] That Lake Salda contains important information about Mars and the primitive land, and that if this information is lost, we will have difficulty enchanting and understanding it in the future, ”she explains.
In recent years, environmentalists and lawyers have talked a lot about a necessary department such as protemo and sovereign awareness or value of the alés lake of its physical beauty.
Although experts believe that an inclusion of lake Salda in the Iugs LÇA has a positive impact of efforts, wave remains ceetical, such as retired professor Erol Kesici, from Unirleyman Demirel, Quelão, fall, which is Demirelman Demirel, the fall of what Demirelman is, what is Demirley, the Demirley, the Demirley, the Demirley, the Demirley, which is what Demirelman Demirel is, what is what Demirelman Demirel is. Environmental Associations: An Association for the Protection of the Nature of Türkiye and the Association of Nature and Sustainability.
“Although Lake Salda has several senseric and protected areas, such as Natura Naturs Euros protection areas Status of protection, there are serious problems in practice,” says Kesici.
“Excessive pollution and the construction of accounts of the cause of the construction of dams are causing the lake ecosystem, its turquoise waters and its endemic species to gradually disappear.”
A horny metana shares similar preocuctions, noting that lake Salda is “a wonderful place that I hope many weights will have an option to see. But it is the kind of place we must ensure that we appreciate responsibly. ”
Paradise for nature lovers
O Lake Salda houses 301 plant speciesTwo of which are endemic and grow exclusively in the lake basin, as well as three endemic fish species and more than 30 aquatic poultry species, as well as more common animals such as wild boars and rapes. This makes Lake Salda one of Turkey’s melhores places for nature and trail photographs.
“The best time to visit Lake Salda is in spring and early summer,” recommends the Tourist Guide Hasan GüldayWho works in the western Türkiye.
“The harmony of the green tree around, while white beaches and turquoise color of the lake are more evident during this period.”
Without, however, Visital is possible the Lake Salda throughout the yearEven without winter. Deto, a road that leads to the center of salon skiing overshapes the best panoramic view of the lake and its surroundings, so impressive that it is, that many believe that, as you imagine they have changed there.
If you plan your trip between July and August, you will be able to admire the lavender fields to the southwest of the lake, where residents produce soaps and perfumes have stopped lavender, some of the best sovers for Leararaires.
Although it is allowed to swim in the lake, many have difficult opinions on how to better protect the water body of their visitors.
“Those that would rely on time and limits from the capaculated for activated as a nata,” says the Gülday guide.
Kesici, in turn, eatens against contact with the lake water, because “it is a closed lake, so all waste remains within it.” In addition, he notes that some weights take mud baths, believing that it is moving to help a condition to treat skin, but this practice can harm the delicate lake ecosystem.
Exploring a Regia
Lake Salda is located in Burdur, near the border with Denizli, a city that houses the Ultro Turkish treasure, Pamukkale – only 1h30 by car to the northeast. The region is called the Lakes District of Türkiye.
Gülday also recommends visiting as old cities of Kibyra and Sagalassos, both in the provisional LÇA of UNESCO heritage.
KibyraA city dating back to the Iron Age is about 1:30 am south of Salda. A point of view of convergence for the commercial route imprisonment, senvolent by the Helenistic, Roman, Lydia and Pisdidiaoes.
Saglasses has a numbers of approximately 12,000 years, but set aside after the sixth century due to epidemics, attacks and natural disasters, such as earthquakes. A city is one of Turkey’s most preserved archaeological sites, as its local remote helped avoid withdrawal, and vegetation rapidly covered as ruins due to erosion.
Many travelers prefer the car Algaro to explore better as landscapes in the region. Antalya’s trip to Lake Salda takes about 2:30. Tourism agencies also derect excurs to explore the lake and its surroundings.
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